"A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bolaä no within the broader context of modern literature and post-war maximalist writing"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1. Realism on an Expanded Canvas
2. Notes on Hyperbole
Part II
3. The Maximalist Novel: Lovers & Haters
4. Anthropophagic Intertextuality
5. The Visible and the Invisible
6. Flat Fictionality
7. Sed Tamen Effabor
8. Ekphrasis Beyond Imagination
Part III
9. Slow Adventures
10. The Labor of Figuration
Epilogue: A Fifth Concept of Reality
References
Index